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Harold B Risher Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Harold B Risher Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$92kRecreation & Sports$25kHealth$16kYouth Development$7kReligion$4k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$289k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
ARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000
HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION$2,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$1,500
ST ANDREW BY-THE-SEA$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $2k → 10%SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $1k → 10%MUSC STORM EYE INSTITUTE: $4k → 12%IPTAY: $16k → 16%JDRF: $1k → 13%ARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HH: $2k → 10%MUSC STORM EYE INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $2k → 10%MUSC STORM EYE INSTITUTE: $2k → 12%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HH: $1k → 10%MUSC STORM EYE INSTITUTE: $1k → 12%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13k → 16%HILTON HEAD AQUATICS: $1k → 10%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HILTON HEAD: $750 → 10%IPTAY: $5k → 16%HILTON HEAD AQUATICS: $500 → 10%HILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $8k → 10%HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%ST ANDREW BY-THE-SEA: $3k → 10%NAMI LOWCOUNTRY: $875 → 10%ST ANDREW BY-THE-SEA: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$124k · 7 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$124k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+23%

Still filing today

29%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $83k · revenue +82%
  • I
    IPTAY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $21k · revenue +25%
  • MS
    MUSC STORM EYE INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $10k

Funded once

  • HH
    HILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +23%
  • SG
    SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +35%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Clemson University Research Foundation

To generate research funding opportunities for clemson university to support research initiatives that advance university discoveries to create new products and services for public use and benefit.

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Tiger Golf Gathering Foundation

The corporation was formed to promote clemson university's golf program through fundraising activities for the benefit of the clemson university foundation, including the design, construction and maintenance of a first-class golf practice…

Education
5
Carolinas Golf Association

The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…

Recreation & Sports
6
Clemson University Continuing Education & Conference Complex Corporation

The corporation exists to own, operate, and manage the martin inn and the walker golf course. in addition, the corporation, on a daily basis, manages the madren conference center for clemson university.

Education
7
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
8
Coastal Educational Foundation

To provide support to coastal carolina university through charitable donations received primarily from individual donors.

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9
College of Charleston Alumni Association

The association works to build a culture of pride and engagement by ensuring alumni from the college of charleston stay informed, get involved, and give back.

Education
10
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
11
Clemson Alumni Association

To enhance the lifelong clemson experience by serving, involving, informing and engaging our alumni, current and future students, and friends of the university.

Education
12
Lower Columbia College Foundation

Lower columbia college foundation's mission is to provide financial support where public funds are not sufficient, and to gather public support for the enhancement of educational opportunities at lower columbia college.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clemson University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $83,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $8,000 · EducationHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOLMUSC STORM EYE INSTITUTE: $9,589 · OtherMUSC STORM EYE IN…ST ANDREW BY-THE-SEA: $3,500 · OtherST ANDREW BY-THE-…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $3,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HH: $2,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB…Individual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant …SC GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $1,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $750 · OtherIPTAY: $20,600 · Youth DevelopmentIPTAYARMS WIDE OPEN CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 · HealthNAMI LOWCOUNTRY: $875 · HealthHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Education$91,000Other$22,339Youth Development$20,600Health$6,875Philanthropy$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $83,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIPTAY: $20,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI LOWCOUNTRY: $875 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harold B Risher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold B Risher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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